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Re:Phone Addicts Are the New Drunk Drivers by ClassyJacket on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @06:02PM (#19619419)
Stop nitpicking this. There's nothing unclear or ambiguous about 'less'. It refers to a smaller quantity of something. There's no reason not to use it. This is just pointless grammar Nazism.
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Re:Phone Addicts Are the New Drunk Drivers by wahern on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @07:39PM (#19620145)
Debating grammar is perhaps one of the best ways to actually learn grammar and otherwise sharpen language skills. I don't think it's a coincidence that grammar and language discourse has been a past time of the learned for millennia around the world.
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Re:Phone Addicts Are the New Drunk Drivers by aaronmcs on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @06:45PM (#19619725)
Not interested in weighing in on less/fewer, but not sure architects of genocide is the comparison we want for grammar sticklers, even if it's become a common turn of phrase. Cheapens the real thing, doesn't it?
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